Science Quotes
Asimov, Jacob Bronowski, Einstein, Arthur Eddington and Carl Sagan lead the page. The most-sourced writer is Henri Poincaré, with several passages from Science and Hypothesis (1901) and The Value of Science (1905), including the one about doubting everything and believing everything being two equally convenient ways to avoid thinking.
Two entries are flagged. “Etymology is a science in which vowels signify nothing at all, and consonants very little” is credited to Voltaire as disputed, and the notes cite two scholarly articles on where the saying comes from. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences” is credited to Galileo and flagged misattributed.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
The first among the sciences is that of statesmanship. That cannot be learnt in academies.
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day [sic] thinking.
Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.
I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators."
Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls.